On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 11:50 -0800, Elizabeth Young wrote: > I'm using windows xp, openoffice 2.0.4, writer. > Had problems with retroactively formatting footnotes. > This document has been in and out of Word, saved as a rich text > formatted doc. Probably a bad idea .... > Repeated transfers into and out of openoffice apparently removed the > 'small' attribute (is that the right term?) from the footnotes. Anyway, > the footnotes are not superscript, neither is the apparent font size > smaller. They used to be OK > I added some footnotes today before I tried to fix the footnote formatting. > The footnotes that were already in the document (not added today) > gracefully switched to the correct formatting when I went to > Tools/Format and changed Text area to small under Character formatting. > The footnotes added today did not switch. > Footnotes added after I tried to change the formatting were also not > superscript etc. > So, I tried saving the document in OpenOffice as a .doc, opened it in > Word, saved it, closed it, opened it in OpenOffice, saved as .odt. > Now the footnotes are behaving just fine. > there has got to be an easier way... > Any suggestions? > > Elizabeth Young > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Having heard so many screams from people that have had Word reformat their documents (between versions) that your problem doesn't surprise me. I am not a great expert in styles but this is a perfect case for them. You create a style and then it is quite simple to reformat things. You will find that in the conversions, the formatting styles have become corrupted. You may have to remove the present formatting first and then reformat. Good luck in getting all the old formatting out. This is where reveal codes is great. This article may be useful. http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/03/openoffice_styl.html So is this. http://documentation.openoffice.org/ http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0200WG-WriterGuide.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
